Gentleman s storm-legging



(No-Model.) A

O. FISHER.

GENTLEMANS STORM LEGGING.

,784. Patented June 28, 1896.

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I (ya 1f--- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES FISHER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

GENTLEMANS STORM-LEGGING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,784, dated June 23,1896. Application filed November 6, 1895. Serial No. 568,145. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES FIsHER, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGentleinens Storm- Leggings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the production of an improved legging forgentlemens wear adapted to be worn over the trousers to serve as aprotection for the trousers in wet or stormy weather and as a coveringto afford greater warmth to the lower limbs of the wearer in coldweather, such features of neatness and elegance being, combined with itsqualities as a covering and a protection, that the legging can be wornwithout detracting from the style and appearance of the dress andwithout injuring or marring the material of the trousers over which itis worn.

The novel part or feature of my present improvement relates to themanner of retaining the legging in place upon the leg of the trousersand the same consists, essentially, in the combination and arrangement,with the body of the legging, of stiff depending clips or tonguesadapted to receive and engage the turned-up or folded bottom of thetrousersleg in such manner that the legging is supported and retained inplace during wear without other attaching means, as hereinafter fullyset forth, and pointed out in the claims.

The following description explains at length the nature of my saidimprovements and the manner in which I proceed to construct, apply, andcarry out the same, reference being had to the drawings that accompanyand form a part of this specification.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gentlemanslegging constructed according to my present invention, the legging beingrepresented as in position on the trousers-leg and with the material cutaway in part at one side to expose the construction inside. Fig. 2 is aview of the legging opened out and laid flat and looking at the inside.Fig. 3 represents a modification in which straight tongues aresubstituted for the hooks or clips.

Aindicates the outer surface of the legging, B an inner lining, and C Qthin elastic ribs or stiffeners of spring metal, whalebone, hard rubber,or other substance possessing similar qualities of flexibility orelasticity and stiffness.

D D are relatively short tongues or strips of some stiff materialattached at the upper ends to the inside of the legging at a givendistance above the bottom edge of the leggingbody and at intervals apartall around the legging. These tongues or strips D are made of anymaterial having proper stiffness and flexibility, such as thin metal,whalebone, hard rubber, or celluloid, and they are attached at the upperends by sewing them to the inside of the legging or by fastening them toa narrow strip of fabric, as represented in Fig. 2 of the drawings, andafterward stitching said strip to the material of the legging. Suchstrips or tongues should be about one and one-half inches long, andordinarily they need not exceed that length, measuring from the point ofattachment at the upper end down to the unattached bottom end. The spacebetween one of the strips or tongues and another is regulated by thesize of the legging, which determines the number of such strips ortongues required, a sufficient number being provided in every case toproperly support and retain the legging in position.

In some cases such strips or tongues are bent or shaped at the upperend, as represented in Fig. 3, to form a hook or clip which is attachedto the material of the logging below the band by sewing or otherwisefastening the downwardly-bent end to the material. This last-describedform of tongue or part D is employed where such parts are attacheddirectly'to the material of the leggin g, while the straight tongues areordinarily used where the fastening-strip of fabric d is employed.

The legging is cut to open at the outer side of the leg and the edgesare arranged to overlap, as represented in Fig. 1, and are fastened andretained in that manner by means of the tongues or exposed ends of thestiffening-rib I on the inside of the outer lap and the loops or pocketsF on the adjacent face of the opposite or inner lap. The rib E, which ismade of thin spring metal or whalebone or other material of similarstiffness and flexible quality, is secured on the inside of the outer oroverlapping edge of the legging, and its endsare left exposed oruncovered, as seen at E so that they are readily inserted into the slitsof the loops or pockets at the top and the bottom of the legging. Suchfastening 5 means serves to close the lapped edges of the -Tging fromtop to bottom. Additional ribs inserted into pockets or between the maalof the legging and the lining, when the f y thereof is lined, for thepurpose of givf in such stiffness to the legging that it will.

not sag or Work down at the top nor lose its shape under Wear.

The legging is put on by placing it around the leg of the trousers andfastening the over- 1 5 lapped edges,after which the bottom of thelegging is turned up all around a short distance, exposing the tonguesor clips, and the bottom of the trousers leg is then turned up evenlyall around over the downwardlyextending 2o tongues or clips, so thatwhen the bottom of the legging is turned down again the bottom of thetrousers is confined between the tongues or clips and the material ofthe legging. In

vention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-- 1. In a legging for gentlemens Wear, the combination withthe leggingbody, of the tongues or strips attachedto the inside of thelegging-body at points above the bottom edge of the legging and adaptedto engage the turned-up bottom of the trousers and means for fasteningthe edges of the legging-body together, as hereinbefore set forth.

2. The herein-described legging for gentlemens wear, composed of thelegging-body adapted to surround and cover the trousers leg and havingstiffening-ribs to retain the shape thereof, the depending tongues orstrips on the inside of said body attached to the upper ends thereof atpoints above the bottom edge of the legging and adapted to engage andconfine between them and the body of the legging the turned up bottom ofthe trousers leg, the stiffening-ribs and fastening means on theoverlapping edges of the body adapted to close the same as hereinbeforeset forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal.

CHARLES FISHER. [u s] \Vitnesses:

O. "W. M. SMITH, CHAS. E. KELLY.

